Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.

Former Research Groups

International Max Planck Research School

Web documentary "Science without frontiers"

Using the example of three research groups from Dresden, Halle and Leipzig in Central Germany, the web documentary "Science without frontiers" (MDR Wissen) illustrates that science thrives on internationality and diversity. One of the institutions that producer Lisa Kettwig visited is the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.